This is just a note to share our local solution to the problem of
Win95/98 machines timing out with Error 54 - Network Busy error, when
connecting to some Unix SAMBA servers.
I had this problem when I tried to connect to my HP9000 that was looking
up the Windows client's hostname via DNS. My version of SAMBA is
1.9.18p10
I changed the /etc/nsswitch.conf file so that the HP would first check
it's local file for the client hostname, then check DNS.
I didn't place the hostname/ip of the client in the HP's local
/etc/hosts file. I simply told the HP to check it's local file before
checking DNS. This seems to have resolved whatever hanging/timing out
issue I had. I'm unsure of the technical reason for this working, I
just know that it works at my site.
The actual line from the /etc/nsswitch.conf file is:
hosts: files [NOTFOUND=continue] dns [TRYAGAIN=continue
NOTFOUND=continue]
Hope this helps someone.
- Mark Shaw
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